Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 102

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102. Angels are amazed when they hear that there are men who attribute all things to nature and nothing to the Divine, and who also believe that one's body, into which so many wonders of heaven are gathered, is a product of nature. Still more are they amazed that the rational part of man is believed to be from nature, when, if men will but raise their minds a little, they can see that such things are from the Divine and not from nature, and that nature has been created simply for clothing the spiritual and for presenting it in a corresponding form in the ultimate of order. Such men they liken to owls which see in darkness, but in light see nothing.


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